water wheel
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
這個字我們還沒有寫成教學內容。以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,方便你先看懂它的意思。
water wheelnoun
- 1
A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.
- "Yes, yes, I'll tell you the road directly, it's it's straight on through the wood till you come to the big water-wheel!"
- Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
- 2
A wheel with buckets used to raise water.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。